History quiz – shambles, soldiers and medieval towns

Shambles, soldiers and medieval towns quiz

How will you fare in this week's history quiz? Questions written by Eugene Byrne, author and journalist.

Who allegedly said: “Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business – the Prince Consort, who is dead, a German professor, who has gone mad, and I, who have forgotten all about it”?

Sir Thomas Dalyell, 1st Baronet of the Binns (1615–85) was a staunch royalist soldier and suppressor of the Pentland Rising, rumoured to have won a game of cards with the devil. He is also said to have introduced the thumbscrew to Britain on his return from exile in Muscovy. What was his nickname?

What was officially opened by the Queen on Thursday 8 September 1966?

From the Renaissance era until the First World War, many of the world’s armies included regiments of ‘cuirassiers’. What was a cuirass?

What, in a medieval English town, was the ‘shambles’?

The failure of the 1910 Conciliation Bill led to one of history’s many ‘Black Friday’s. What did the bill seek to do?

In the Prussian, German and Austrian armies they were called ‘Uhlans’. What were they called in the British army?

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